Writing on art, architecture, yoga, pilgrimage, devotion, and what we owe the living world. Dispatches, fragments, and longer essays, written from wherever the work has taken me.
Friday night at The Peach West Palm Beach, Florida. The 18′ high ceilinged room vibrated with lights, background music, and a revolving show of paintings and pictures of the art, writer, videographer, yogini.
Read on the journal →I have many synchronicities that happen in my life. Recently a preponderance of such. What is the meaning of this?
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Whimsical building histories, painted in a classical American naïve style — mixed media paintings of your home, hotel, museum, cottage, condo, castle, apartment, summer digs, or business.
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First: It is semi-tropical, heavily wooded, filled with fruits, nuts and flowers of all kinds, waterfalls, rivers and streams meander and find their way to the sea.
Read on the journal →From the time when I was a young boy of 6 or 7, I dreamed of becoming a great architect. I would grow up and design grand buildings to shelter, protect, and inspire the people. — Lee Porter Butler, San Francisco notebook
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In all probability, the building you are living in at this very moment is causing disease in you without your even knowing it. It lacks oxygen and the intensity of full spectrum natural lighting required by every animal retina.
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In his book The Earth in the Balance, Vice President Al Gore predicts the end of the world as we know it, by the middle of the 21st century resulting from the misuse of global resources.
Read on the journal →Make the decision to embark upon The Camino de Santiago, and your pilgrimage begins. From my journals walking the spiritual pilgrimage, August–September 2011.
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What a magical place is India. Jill got to enjoy the crème de la crème — the guest of Biki Oberoi, schmoozed by royalty, living in a palace by Lake Pichola with a King from the oldest continuous dynasty on earth.
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Three years ago today, July 25, 2017, I had arrived in Iquitos, Peru to spend a few weeks in the low jungle, before going to the high jungle and the mountains.
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Try out a Kundalini Yoga class. This ancient technology was designed to clear out the energetic blocks and stimulate your own healing potential.
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This is the era of each one of us becoming our own Guru. The cult of Gurus is over. I have studied with many, many Yoga teachers since the age of 7.
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The final indication of the kundalini awakening is a growing sense of purpose. The master of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan, called it destiny.
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I was awakened by a call from my stepson Aaron, that the city was performing a chain saw massacre on all the palm trees lining Clematis Street. All the trees were facing the ax.
Read on the journal →The EKOTECTURE plan for Lake Worth Beach includes a gondola from the Tri-Rail Station to Lake Worth Beach, eliminating noisy combustion-engine traffic and replacing it with fountains, water walls, water falls.
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Although paper making is an ancient art, the use of handmade paper as an artistic vehicle of expression is of more recent origin. It is like a combination of oil painting, watercolor, and bas-relief sculpture.
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Kitchens, hallways, foyers, baths, pool areas, office spaces — enlivened by Fine Art Tile Murals by Jill Karlin. Where a focal point is needed or a window is impossible, a slice of tropical flora, landscape, seascape can be added.
Read on the journal →I flew to Boston on Saturday, October 22, 2022 to be with my Mom, Lenore Gardner Karlin, 104 years old, in a rehab after a hospital.
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My dear, dear friend Ernesto Ciccarelli (Chi) passed on St. Patrick's Day. Chi played at every one of my life events for the last almost thirty years. He was a great friend, and a stellar human.
Read on the journal →January 1, 2021. With an intimate group of readers we embarked upon a year-long journey, reading daily A Course In Miracles and A Lesson a day. It proved fruitful for the entire 365 days of reading.
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